The actual construction time for a bicycle varies a lot, depending on how intricate the details, and what all the bike is intended for. For a very basic and straight-forward build ...

All my bikes are made of steel. I use a variety of tubes made by True Temper, Columbus and Reynolds. There are a few other tubing manufacturers that offer specific tubes ...

Yes. I use Reynolds 953, Columbus XCR and I am excited about the new KVA stainless tubing.

I use two methods for joining tubes, both of which can be called brazing. I silver braze when building lugged frames, and fillet braze, or brass braze, when building non-lugged frames. ...

All of my racks are made of straight-gauge chromoly steel. Steel has the best strength-to-weight ratio, and better still, no matter where in the world you might find yourself, if you ...